First brands group™ is a global automotive parts company that develops, markets and sells premium products through a portfolio of n market-leading brands: raybestos® complete brake solutions, centric® parts replacement brake components, fram® filtration products, luberfiner® filtration products, trico® wiper blades, anco® wiper blades, carter® fuel and water pumps, autolite® spark plugs, and strongarm® lift supports.
the first brands group™ portfolio of world-class brands offers best-in-class technology, industry-leading engineering capabilities, and superior customer service.
first brands group is hiring for a supply chain director for our office in matamoros.
the supply chain director leads planning and inventory management strategy for the north american aftermarket and oe/oes business with a focus on meeting customer requirements to drive business growth.
this role is accountable for planning inventory requirements, managing product flow, and ensuring company supply chain goals and kpis are achieved.
the supply chain director will work with the cpfr and forecasting teams to understand demand requirements and liaise with suppliers, operations, and distribution to ensure product and resources are in place to meet those requirements.
the supply chain director is accountable to ensuring we meet our customer fill rate, inventory turns, dos, and supplier delivery kpis.
it is critical that this leader communicate, root cause, and recommend solutions to constraints across the supply chain.
key responsibilities
- collaborate and drive alignment with key stakeholders across the business including planning, sales, product management, manufacturing, distribution, transportation, and purchasing to ensure we have the right inventory at the right time in the right quantities to meet our customers' expectations.
- ensure disciplined, robust cyclical demand planning process and procedures are in place and executed against
- sets and monitors inventory levels required to achieve service requirements for manufactured and purchased finished goods based on sku level forecasts
- establishes appropriate safety stocks to protect supply against demand variability and gaps to forecast accuracy
- understand and ensure plans are in place for customer and sales driven events outside of normal demand
- review team structure to ensure the team is staffed for success specifically as it relates to the following activities:
- demand planning
- po placement and tracking
- coordination with suppliers and internal manufacturing
- collaboration with cpfr's, sales, customer service, manufacturing, and distribution
- understanding and following-up on key customer requirements
- provide leadership, communication, coaching, motivation, and recognition of employees
- represent the demand and inventory planning function on key cross-departmental projects as they arise in the business
responsibilities will continue to evolve to support business needs as they arise.
qualifications:
- business administration or logistics bachelor degree
- 10+ years' experience in demand planning, supply planning, inventory management or related supply chain functions
- bilingual
- strong understanding of erp/mrp fundamentals (oracle or sap preferred but not required)
- management and team building experience
- excellent communication skills internally across levels within the organization and externally with customers
- experience managing demand and inventory across an assortment with more than 12,000 skus sold at retail, online and through direct import channels.
- automotive aftermarket experience is preferred, but not required
- expert in data-driven decision making
- proficient in ms office required with advance excel skills
- apics cpim or cscp certification or ism cpsm certification preferred